Old Cottage, Pinner

Helen Allingham,
1890s early

LL 3654

About this object

In the late 19th century Britain experienced an agricultural depression caused by the modernisation of farming practices. The number of men and women required to work the land reduced significantly. Families where forced to leave the countryside and move to towns and cities in search of employment and a better standard of living.

The Victorians felt a sense of nostalgia for the idyllic rural life that was at risk of being forgotten. Allingham’s cottage scenes were seen as a way of preserving this rustic way of life. She paid careful attention to styles of architecture and traditional methods of construction.

View of a country cottage with a woman standing by a gate. A bushy hedge surrounds the cottage and there are ducks on the grassy area in the foreground. There is a small dirt path that leads up to the gate and trees are visible in the background.

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